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Heritage building, means any building of one or more premises or any part thereof which requires preservation and conservation for historical, architectural environmental or cultural importance, and includes such portion of the adjoining such building or all parts thereof as may be required for fencing or covering or otherwise preserving such building, and also includes the areas and buildings requiring preservation and conservation for the purpose as aforesaid under sub-clause (ii) of clause (a) of sub-section (4) of section 31 of the West Bengal Town and Country (Planning and Development) Act, 1979 (West Bengal Act 13 of 1979), monuments of heritage importance, as defined in clause (i) of this section precincts or such other sites commonly considered for heritage importance, the West Bengal Heritage Commission Act, 2001, s. 2(f)....
Arrangements between debtors and creditors
Arrangements between debtors and creditors. The 125th and 126th sections of the (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1869, which repealed an Act of 1861, allowed liquidation by arrangement and composition with creditors by resolutions passed at similar representative meetings to take the place of proceedings in bankruptcy. The (English) Bankruptcy Act, 1883, having repealed the Act of 1869 without re-enacting these clauses, arrangements with creditors outside the law of bankruptcy became common, and in order to legalize and regulate these arrangements, the (English) Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1887, was passed and amended in 1890 by 53 & 54 Vict. c. 24. The law has now been consolidated by the (English) Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1914 (4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 47), which repeals the Act of 1887, and also parts of the Bankruptcy and (English) Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1913, and contains practically the whole statute law on the subject. The Act is divided into five parts: (1) defining the deeds of arrangement...
Sciagraph
An old term for a vertical section of a building called also sciagraphy See Vertical section under Section...
exemption
exemption 1 : the act of exempting or state of being exempt 2 : one that exempts or is exempted: as a : an amount of income exempted from taxation that may be deducted from adjusted gross income under the tax laws see also Internal Revenue Code in the Important Laws section compare deduction, exclusion, tax credit de·pen·den·cy exemption [də-pen-dən-sē-] : an exemption that is allowed for each dependent who qualifies under the tax laws (as sections 151 and 152 of the Internal Revenue Code) NOTE: Under the federal income tax laws, the dependency exemption is allowed for each dependent whose gross income is less than the exemption or who is a child of the taxpayer and is under 19 or a student under 24. per·son·al exemption : an exemption that is allowed for the taxpayer or for the taxpayer and spouse if filing a joint return b : the right created by federal and state laws to exempt specified types of property from a bankruptcy estate [pre...
Levy
Levy, may include both the process of taxation as well as the determination of the amount of tax or duty, S.K. Pattanaik v. State of Orissa, (2000) 1 SCC 413.The term 'levy' is wider in its import than term 'assessment'. It may include both 'imposition' as well as 'assessment' Imposition is generally used for levy of a duty or tax by legislative provisions indicating the subject-matter of levy and rate of levy. Levy of duty does not mean actual collection, Collector of Central Excise, Chandigarh v. Smith Kline Beecham Consumer Health Care Ltd., AIR 2003 SC 829. [see Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944)][fr. levo, Lat.], the act of raising money or men.Assessment and collection of income tax The expression 'levy, assessment and collection of income-tax' in section 13(1) of the Finance Act, 1950, was wide enough to comprehend re-assessment proceedings under section 34 of the Income Tax Act, 1922, Income Tax Officer v. K.N. Guruswamy, AIR 1958 SC 808: (1959) SCR 785.Levy under section 14(...
Printed books and printed manuals
Printed books and printed manuals, including those in loose-leaf from which the binder, has been specifically referred to a 'Nil' duty article. It is in this context that the learned Attorney-General in support of the appeal contended that in general trade parlance a book is known by feature like (i) a book has an author, (ii) a book has a publisher, (iii) a book is a priced publication, (iv) the book is available to all and sundry who pay for it, (v) the book does not have a memorandum of understand-ing, (vi) there is no confidentiality about the book, (vii) a book has a subject to deal with, (viii) the pages are serially numbered and neatly bound, and (ix) the last but not the least, it should have ISBN Code i.e. International Books Subscriber Nomen-clature, Commissioner of Customs v. Parasrampuria Synthetics Ltd., AIR 2001 SC 3501: (2001) 93 DLT 339 (SC): (2001) 77 ECC 449 (SC): 2001 ECR 185 (NULL): 2001 (133) ELT 9 (SC): (2002) 2531 TR 274 (SC): JT 2001 (7) SC 243: 2001 (6) SCALE 5...
Ponendum in ballium
Ponendum in ballium, a writ commanding that a prisoner be bailed in cases bailable, Reg. Brev. 133....
Pensioner
Pensioner, the expression 'pensioner' is generally understood in contra-distinction to the one in service. Those who render after service retire on superannuation and are in receipt of pension are 'pensioners'. They constitute a homogenour class; for the purpose of pension benefit they cannot be discriminated from other pensioners, D.S. Nakara v. Union of India, (1983) 1 SCC 305: AIR 1983 SC 130 (133).1. One who is supported by an allowance at the will of another; a dependant; he who receives an annuity from Government without filling any office.2. A band of gentlemen who attend as a guard on the royal person. It was instituted in 1539; each gentleman has an allowance of 150l. per annum, and two horses. This band is now called the Honourable Body of Gentlemen-at-Arms.3. A member of a college at Cambridge who is not on the foundation....
Paymaster-General (see now Accountant-General
Paymaster-General (see now Accountant-General; the duties of Paymaster-General transferred to Accountant-General: see (English) Judicature Act, 1925, ss. 133 et seq.). Under the (English) Chancery Funds Act, 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 44), the office of Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery was abolished, and the duties transferred to the Paymaster-General, and by the (English) Supreme Court of Judicature (Funds, etc.) Act, 1883, there was only one accounting department for the Supreme Court of Judicature. Rules with respect to the Paymaster-General were authorised to be made by the (English) Judicature Act, 1875, s. 24, and, further, s. 30 of that Act, and s. 4 of the Act of 1883, supra, the present practice and procedure being controlled by the (English) Supreme Court Funds Rules, 1927....
Noisy nuisance
Noisy nuisance. An action may lie for a noisy nuisance, as by ringing bells, Soltau v. De Held, (1851) 2 Sim NS 133; user of stable, Ball v. Ray, (1873) LR 8 Ch 467; reprinting works, Plsue v. Rushmer, 1907 AC 121; or hotel kitchen, Vanderpant v. Mayfair Hotel Co. Ltd., (1930) 1 Ch 138. As to nuisance caused by rifle practice, see Hawley v. Steele, (1877) 6 Ch D 521. As to motor horns, etc., the Minister of Transport may prohibit noise and hooting (20 & 21 Geo. 5, c. 43, s. 30; and 24 & 25 Geo. 5, c. 50, s. 9); and see MUSICIAN....
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